Lightning Applications in Weather and Climate Research

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 755-767

  Price, Colin G ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Climate; Lightning; Severe weather; Thunderstorms

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; CLIMATE RESEARCH; SEVERE WEATHER; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; UPPER TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPORS; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC UTILITIES; GREENHOUSE GASES; LOADING; NITROGEN OXIDES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THUNDERSTORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

LIGHTNING;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; LIGHTNING; NITROGEN OXIDES; SEVERE WEATHER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THUNDERSTORM; TRACKING; TROPOSPHERE; WATER BUDGET; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84886751156     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-012-9218-7     Document Type: Article

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